A Month of Sundays

Kent Biffle

University of North Texas Press, 1993 - History - 261 pages

Columnist for The Dallas Morning News, Kent Biffle claims he has “the best job in the world.” His Sunday column, Kent Biffle's Texana, takes him across the state in search of the unique, the picturesque, and the bizarre. A Month of Sundays offers a sampling of these treasures from the heart of Texas. The Texana afficionado will meet here the men and women who have helped to define the Texas spirit—from the early politicians to the suffragists, from outlaws to lawmen, from witches to cowboys.

Contents

• AMID CHAOS TEXANS FORM NATION: 3
• POLITICIANS OF OLD RELIED ON LOW BLOWS: 12
• TEXANS PLOTTED INDIANMEXICAN CONFLICT: 15
• HOUSTON LED A WILD LIFE: 18
• CROCKETT SURRENDER? DEBATERS OF THE ISSUE JUST WONT GIVE: 23
• SAN JACINTO BATTLE EARNED RANK IN BOOK: 25
• PORCINE INTRIGUE REVISITED: 34
• YELLOW ROSE STORY LOSES ITS BLOOM: 37
• INDIANOLANOTHING LASTS ON THE COASTS SHIFTING SAND: 41
• THE RIDE OF TEXAS PAUL REVERE: 49
• KIOWA CHIEF REVERED IN LIFE AND DEATH: 53
• TRUE STORY OF 1860 FIRES LYNCHING IS LOST CHAPTER: 56
• CONFEDERATE GRAVES REVIVE TALES OF BATTLE: 60
• CUSTER WAS A POPULAR MAN DURING HIS TEXAS STAY: 64
• FORT CHADBOURNEA MONUMENT TO THE OLD WEST: 67
• A FRONTIER SOLDIERS LOT WAS NOT A HAPPY ONE: 71
• OLD BUFFALO SOLDIERS RECALL HORSEBACK DAYS: 75
• COURAGE EARNED BLACK SEMINOLES A PLACE IN HISTORY: 79
• HOW THE VOTE WAS WON: 82
• OLD TEXAS LAWS GAVE DEATH MORE OFTEN THAN LIBERTY: 89
• PICTURING THE BAD GUYS: 91
• ON THE TRAIL OF THE TRUE TALE OF A GUNFIGHTER: 96
• WHO WERE THE REDHEADED WARRIORS?: 98
• LET THE RECORD SHOW JANE WAS HANGED FIRST: 102
• WRITER TURNED DETECTIVE TO TRACE BLOODY FEUD: 105
• BESSIES DEATH IN 1877 STILL CAUSES DEBATE: 107
• OUTLAWS CAPTURE WAS AN INSIDE JOB: 111
• NO KIDDING BILLY MAY HAVE DIED IN TEXAS IN 1950: 114
• THE HANGING OF WILD BILL LONGLEY: 119
• DARING TRAIN ROBBER GOT THE GOODS NOT THE GLORY: 122
• BILL DALTON SHOT STRAIGHT IN BANK NOTE: 126
• PINK FLOWERS MARK A BADMANS GRAVE: 131
• OLDSTYLE BANDITS HAD PANACHE: 134
• RICHES WERE EASY COME EASY GO FOR TRAIN ROBBER: 137
• THE DAY SANTA BROUGHT A LITTLE CHRISTMAS FEAR: 141
• BONNIECLYDE TEAM ECLIPSED BONNIES ROY: 146
• IN OLDEN DAYS THE OUTLAWS OUTDREW EM ALL: 149
• TELLING IT STRAIGHT: 152
• INMATE ORDERS RARELY EXOTIC: 156
• WHATS IN A NAME? OUT IN BUG TUSSLE FOLKS ARENT SURE: 163
• PHANTOMS PLY TWILIGHT ZONE THAT IS CADDO LAKE AREAS PAST: 165
• BELL COUNTY WITCHCRAFT LEGEND LIVES ON: 171
• GRAVES SERVE AS REMINDERS OF WILD WACO: 174
• UT HOLDS SMOKING PISTOL TO PA FERGUSON: 177
• WEST TEXAS HALLIE STILLWELL IS AN ORIGINAL: 184
• THE LEGEND OF DAREDEVIL ROY BUTLER: 187
• CONAN CREATORS LIFE DIDNT MATCH TALES: 192
• MURPHYS WAR DIDNT END IN THE ARMY: 196
• OLD SALTS REMEMBER SAM DEALEYS VALOR: 201
• MEMORABILIA REVEALS THE LIPSCOMB LEGACY IS ALIVE: 205
• THEYRE PICKIN GRASS IN NACOGDOCHES: 207
• CHEROKEE JACK LOOKS THE PART AND HES APT TO PLAY IT: 210
• STALKING THE ELUSIVE BUCKAROO: 213
• DOVE STILL RUFFLING A LOT OF FEATHERS: 216
• ACE REID COULD ALWAYS DRAW LAUGHS: 222
• JOHN HENRY FAULK LOOMS TALL OVER TEXAS: 225
• SORT OF AN ALAMO: 232
• CHILI VS STEAK FEUD COULD GET POWERFUL HOT: 237
• TYPOGRAPHY AS FINE ART: 240

About the author

Kent Biffle is a long-time columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He has received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and the Southwest Journalists Forum. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of East Texas State University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Month of Sundays
• Author: Kent Biffle
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0929398564, 9780929398563
• Length: 261 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)